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Zabbix 7 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

You're reading from Zabbix 7 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook Explore the new features of Zabbix 7 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078320

Length 540 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Zabbix

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Nathan Liefting

Brian van Baekel

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing Zabbix and Getting Started Using the Frontend

2. Chapter 2: Getting Things Ready with Zabbix User Management FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring

4. Chapter 4: Working with Triggers and Alerts

5. Chapter 5: Building Your Own Structured Templates

6. Chapter 6: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting

7. Chapter 7: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation

8. Chapter 8: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies

9. Chapter 9: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

10. Chapter 10: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API

11. Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup

12. Chapter 12: Advanced Zabbix Database Management

13. Chapter 13: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration

14. Index

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Using the Zabbix API for extending functionality

An API is your gateway to getting started with extending the functionality of any piece of software. Luckily, Zabbix offers a solid working API that we can use to extend our functionality with ease. Zabbix has also released zabbix-utils for Python, making building scripts a lot easier for everyone. It’s an amazing addition, but as it’s not allowed in every environment and we want to keep the dependencies to a minimum, we won’t utilize it in our test here. Nevertheless, check out the library here:

https://github.com/zabbix/python-zabbix-utils

In this recipe, we’ll explore the use of the Zabbix API to do some tasks, creating a good basis to start working with the Zabbix API in your actual production environments.

Getting ready

We are going to need a Zabbix server with some hosts. I’ll be using our lar-book-centos host from the previous chapters, but feel free to use any Zabbix server. I will...

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Authors (2)

Nathan Liefting

Nathan Liefting

Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist) with over 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan began working with Zabbix in 2016 when Zabbix 2 was still in use and Zabbix 3 had just been released. He currently works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies worldwide.

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Baekel

Baekel

Brian van Baekel discovered the power of Zabbix early in his career as a network engineer. Since then, he has been working with Zabbix in various large environments, earning his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017. In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the US, focusing on building Zabbix environments globally. In 2021, the business expanded further with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, dedicated entirely to the Zabbix product. All companies provide support, training, and consultancy services, ensuring Brian works with the Zabbix product around the clock. Fun fact: Even his cat is named Zabbix.

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